in all its simplicity, and I know that those who do accept it automatically overcome the psychological and emotional barriers just as though they were not there. Life is to each one of us what we make it. We shall find joy if we really look for it, and we shall discover happiness wherever we go if we carry happiness with us.

Let us take another thought of Jesus when he said that we should not be too concerned about the outside of things, but “cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter”, by which, of course, he meant our inward lives, our thoughts, our emotions, our feelings, our mental reactions to everything around and above everything else, our ideas about God and the destiny of our soul and the relationship we have with each other. For it is this inside of ourselves that is meant by the eye of the beholder.

Why could we not, without anyone’s help, learn to analyze our own thinking, find out just what our reactions to life are, and why, and make a real business of reeducating our minds until finally all our reactions become positive and constructive, hopeful, and helpful? But always with this added thought in mind, no one does, or possibly can, live by himself alone.

We should start with this idea: Life is living itself in us and through us. We are a part of It. That Life which entered into us has never separated Itself from us; It is merely waiting our conscious cooperation with It. Always there is a Presence with which we may commune. Always there is a Power greater than we are that we can call on. And always God is for us, provided, of course, we are for God. We cannot expect God to be for us if we are trying to oppose or go contrary to that which is the very Essence of harmony and love and beauty and reason. But we can make up our minds to retrace our mental pathway back to the place where we started with only God, symbolized at first through our human parents, and now broadened and deepened by the realization that we had not only earthly parents but also that we have a heavenly Parentage.

Why should we not retrace the pathway of our lives until it leads